In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
John TukeyFar better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John TukeyIn a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.
John TukeyI know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
John Tukey